Israeli Government Implements Cultural Boycott of German Poet Günter Grass

Israel, which claims to be the “only democracy” in the middle east, has implemented a cultural boycott against German poet Günter Grass.

This shocking ban shows that to the Israeli government, all arts are political. It is also a political statement when artists and celebrities perform in Israel, today’s apartheid state. Business as usual should not be conducted with a state that is operating a system of apartheid that is more severe than the now defunct South African system once was. The number of people under siege in Gaza combined with the number of people cordoned off in bantustans in the area we know as the West bank is almost equal to the population living in the “free” privileged zone of Israel. This is the poem that earned the German artist much more publicity than he probably ever dreamed possible:

Israel commits crime of apartheid: "Inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime."